I’m kind of impressed he got Norway to buy planes that don’t exist and even has them thinking he’s already delivered them.

Yes, the gaffe seems to be overshadowing that part of the story. The Canadian government had enormous trouble with the purchase of F-35 jets. I thought I remembered reading something about the jets being a completely lousy product, but Googling up on the subject seems to indicate that the biggest problem is unexpected cost overruns in the billions. Very suspect business.HuffPost Canada – 17 Apr 14

OTTAWA - The ball is now firmly in the Harper government's court when it comes to deciding whether to stick with the oft-maligned F-35 fighter jet program.After almost 18 months of exhaustive research...

Undoubtedly there are Trump supporters out there celebrating this F-52 reference as the sort of carefully-planned distraction that only a calculating genius could possibly have devised.

I thought I remembered reading something about the jets being a completely lousy product, but Googling up on the subject seems to indicate that the biggest problem is unexpected cost overruns in the billions. Very suspect business.